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Unix filesystem

In Unix and operating systems inspired by it, the file system is considered a central component of the operating system. It was also one of the first parts of the system to be designed and implemented by Ken Thompson in the first experimental version of Unix, dated 1969.

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Unix filesystem

Nodes41
Edges40
Triples11
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
Components1

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Unix filesystem → Citizendium, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, GFDL, This, Unix, Unported License

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disk partitionsinstance ofInstead of addressing separate volumes0.80text
removable mediainstance ofInstead of addressing separate volumes0.80text
and network shares as separate treesinstance ofInstead of addressing separate volumes0.80text
such volumes can be mounted on a directoryinstance ofInstead of addressing separate volumes0.80text
causing the volume's file system tree to appear as that directory in the larger treeinstance ofInstead of addressing separate volumes0.80text
Unix filesystemrelated to ReferencesThis0.60section
Unix filesystemrelated to ReferencesCitizendium0.60section
Unix filesystemrelated to ReferencesUnix0.60section
Unix filesystemrelated to ReferencesCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike0.60section
Unix filesystemrelated to ReferencesUnported License0.60section
Unix filesystemrelated to ReferencesGFDL0.60section

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